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“When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.” quote by S. E. Hinton — Download Open image

“When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.”

S. E. Hinton

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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

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I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

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